Category Archives: APIDToolAssistant

How To Nudge And Shift a Whole Layer

The latest version of our LayerLifter tool includes an optional layer shifter feature, which allows you to do document-wide ‘layer nudging’ Imagine you made many pages with a picture grid layout, with captions below the pictures – something like this: … Continue reading

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FrameReporter 1.0.5 Released

We’ve been hard at work these last few months – a beta of StoryTweaker, a new version of TextExporter, and also a new version of FrameReporter for InDesign. This update adds the ability to display the image file name and/or … Continue reading

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TextExporter 2.0.8 available

Our ever more popular TextExporter tool has had a face-lift. TextExporter is a free plug-in for Adobe InCopy and Adobe InDesign that allows you to export all text from an InDesign file to a single file – in either Text, RTF or InDesign … Continue reading

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ImageHorn and ImageLibraryLoader Updated

ImageHorn is a free plug-in for Adobe InDesign to automatically resize or re-fit an image frame’s contents when the image frame is resized. ImageHorn has a new feature – it is now possible to ‘pre-assign’ a fitting option to an … Continue reading

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How to Populate a Template With Images in No Time At All

This short article will explain how you can set up a template with a bunch of image frames, and then populate this template with images, much faster than you’d expect, using Adobe InDesign CS3 or above. The secret to this … Continue reading

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APID ToolAssistant updated

We’ve just released an update to the APID ToolAssistant plug-in – version 1.0.47. This plug-in has no end-user features; it is mainly an invisible, yet critical component of many popular InDesign plug-ins, both developed by us or by other software … Continue reading

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APIDToolAssistant updated for CS4

The APIDToolAssistant 1.0.46 has been released. More info can be found here. Download APID ToolAssistant (version 1.0.46. Includes versions for Mac, Windows, InDesign CS, InDesign CS2, InDesign CS3 and InDesign CS4). This version is of interest to end-users and scripters alike. It … Continue reading

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How to add InDesign page item adornments using scripting

Ingredients – Adobe® InDesign® CS or higher (the APIDToolAssistant plug-in is available for InDesign CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, Mac and Windows). – A licensed copy or a demo version of APIDToolAssistant 1.0.46 or higher. It also works with unlicensed versions, … Continue reading

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APIDToolAssistant merges Active Page Items Developer Kernel and Active Page Items Runtime

There is a new version of the free Lightning Brain Text Exporter; it adds better support for InDesign CS3, and support for text gathering for right-to-left languages. It also adds some optional new features whose availability is linked to the purchase … Continue reading

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